Medical, Books, Museums, Mail Orders, and a Good Sunday...

Monday, July 6th, I had a morning appointment with Dr. Chase Wilson, our dermatologist. It was my annual full-body check. I left 20 minutes early for the appointment. Felt strongly I needed to leave that early. It is really not that far to his office. I got in my car and it would not start. It couldn't find my key. I checked my purse and my key fob was in my purse. Ugh. This meant the battery was probably DOI in the in fob. I hurried back into the house, got Claude's keys to my car and was able to get the car started. Claude would replace the battery in the fob later that day. Bless his pea-pickin' heart!! 

My visit with Dr. Chase is always pleasant. The only issue he found this time was a pre-cancer in the top center of my forehead. He burned that off. Now I kind of look like the ladies in India when they get the red dot on their forehead. I am done with this until next year! Yeah!! I took this silly picture of me as I waited for Dr. Wilson. I thought I looked like Generic Sandi. One size fits all. 

I told Claude I would have earned a biscuit with a good doctor visit. I picked he and I each a biscuit up at Bojangles and headed for home. I was amazed when I got home that all of this took much less than an hour. 

In the afternoon, I finished reading my WDNC Club book. Well, it is really for my girls. I wanted to read it before I mailed it to them. Melani Sanders puts little videos out there. Claude happened to catch some and sent them to me. I laughed hysterically. I started my hot flashes in 1999. I had a hysterectomy in January 2000 and they came on full bore. My doctor came in to check on me after the surgery. He took one look, saw the sweat and said, "We need to get your something immediately." He prescribed Premarin. I took that for several years and then news came it was thought to cause breast cancer in some women. I discontinued it thinking I would rather endure the hot flashes that endure cancer. I had my regular mammogram a few months after stopping the Premarin. They found something that was concerning. I was sent for an immediate ultrasound to confirm their mammogram findings. I was diagnosed with lobular neoplasia. Basically, it was not cancer but was a precursor. The spot was removed and I started taking Tamoxifen for the next 5 years. Somehow, I thought when I stopped taking the Tamoxifen, it would take a bit for all that medication to leave my body, then I would be finished with hot flashes. It is now 26 years later and I still have hot flashes through the day and night. Hence, my laughing and Melani's frank observations of about the changes her body is going through thru with perimenopause, menopause and post-menopause. This is a subject that has not been openly discussed until recently. My girls are both now having hot flashes. I sent them an eMail with a link to one of Melani's little video bits. I told them I was mailing them this book and hoped they would enjoy it as much as I did. Evidently, Melani's WDNC (We Do Not Care Club) handbook is an international sensation. 

We would have McAlister's for dinner followed by Castle on the television and some more crocheting on Raelyn's Christmas afghan. 

Tuesday, July 7th, Claude's sister, Lynette, mailed us a book by the Park Service about the Lewis & Clark expedition. I spent my morning reading through this book. It was a good Reader's Digest Condensed version of their story. 

Then I spent time in Sandiland. Did a refresh on my To Do List, cleared out eMails and text messages, practiced leading the hymns in preparation for Sunday, got the books ready to put in the mail to Nissa and Andie, sent out the Relief Society announcements for the week, send cards to my ministering sisters and typed a Church News article for Katelyn. Whew. I often marvel at the time spent in Sandiland but that really is where I can get a lot done. 

Wednesday, July 8th, we set aside a day for an outing. We started our outing with breakfast on the road from Bojangles. We do keep this place in business. Our destination was the Cincinnati Museum Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The was originally a train station. It is three floors full of lots of museums. We had tickets to two of them - The Legos Jurassic World exhibit and the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center. We have been to this museum before to see an exhibit of Pompeii artifacts. It is a grand building. 

Our first museum was in the Lower Level and was the Legos Jurassic Park exhibit. It was well laid out with lots of stations for kids to make things with Legos. They ask when you enter that, if you make something with the Legos, you return them to the place where you make the item. We didn't make anything but enjoyed watching the kids fingers work quickly as they created things. There would be over 50 Lego sculptures of scenes or creatures from the Jurassic Park movies. They used over 6 million bricks to create all of this. Amazing. 

As you enter, there is a hallway and this video is playing showing them putting together different dinosaurs. 

Honestly, Claude and I have not watched a lot of the Jurassic Park movies. But we love Legos. Claude is standing at the gate that, evidently, features in a lot of the movies. This gate s made of 183,470 Legos and too 1,290 hours to complete. 

The first room had a model of the island where Jurassic Park was located. Note that around the ceiling edge is a monorail system with a train that actually runs on it. 

In this room were these items: 1) a Euro Copter EC 130 B4 or Jurassic One. It is made with 17, 917 Legos and too 106 hours to complete.

2) the Isla Nublar Ferry carries 400 visitors per year. The ferry boat is Navatek I SWATH. It operates from Hawaii. 

3) Super King Air 200 could carry up to 11 passengers. 

4) Sign on the wall made out of Legos

The next room dealt more with fossils and DNA extraction. Again, hands on experiences for those who wanted to create. 

This DNA strand has 3,740 Legos and took 70 hours to make.

The DNA testing setup contains 4,251 Legos and took 66 hours to make. 

The Hammond Creation Lab was visited next. You enter notice immediately the leg of a Brachiosaurus. HUGE dinosaur. You walk under his belly and see lots of smaller dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs. When you come out the other side, you get another view of being under this enormous Brachiosaurus. The Brachiosaurus is made of 171,150 Duplo Blocks and took 1,477 hours to make. He weighs over 2 tons. Way cool.

At the far end of the room is another table full of Legos to try and re-create some of these dinosaurs. Note the cute step stool so all sized and ages of kids and enjoy this hands-on experience. 

Next room had babies they created from DNA.

This is Charlie, the youngest of the Velociraptors. He is made of 3,780 Legos and too 68 hours to create.

This is Echo, third eldest of the Velociraptors. It took 4,120 Legos to make her and 64 hours to do it. 

As we left this room, there was one wall devoted to the Mosasaurus. This is the largest carnivore in Jurassic World. It is really a sea-going lizard. It weighed the same as three adult Orcas and was as long as a Finback Whale. It too 107,688 Legos to build and 399 hours to complete. The Mosasaurus used every shade of blue in the current Lego color palette. 

The final scene in the Legos Jurassic Park exhibit was the Jeep being chased by a T-Rex. The family in front of us had their little girl pretend to scream. Great picture! The front of the Jeep is entirely made of Legos. They back is a platform for you to walk up and sit on inside the Jeep. It is not Legos. The T-Rex is all Legos. 

Then, like all great museums, you exit through a gift shop. There were a couple of dinosaurs in the gift shop. Claude purchased a great shirt.

The final Lego creation was a replica of the Cincinnati Museum Center. Way Cool!

We then had to make several tries but found the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust Museum. We have been to Yad Vashem in Israel. Very sobering museum. This was much smaller, of course. But it was more hopeful to visit. It turns out there were a lot of refugees after World War II and the Holocaust who made their way to Cincinnati. They came through the train station that was housed in this very building. Their stories are told in this museum. Knowing it is all local survivors telling their stories made it very personal feeling. 

The wall as you enter is covered with quotes from these survivors. I learned a new word with the first quote "Shoah". Shoah is the Hebrew word for "catastrophe" or "utter destruction". As a proper noun, it is the standard Hebrew term for the Holocaust—the systematic, state-sponsored genocide of six million Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. We have been watching a lot of things about World War II. Claude is the history buff and really enjoys this. I am learning what I did not learn as I breezed through only what I had to know in High School. We did have a History teacher in High School named Mattie Gray Brown. She was an older lady. She had us watch the Nuremburg trials. We had to have permission slips from our parents to watch this would would show some graphic pictures of the experiments done on the Jewish people as well at the gas chambers, etc. As I think about it, I wonder if Mattie Gray Brown was Jewish. Watching that was one of those moments when I was appalled at what man could do to other men. 

Inside was a display of some of the items these people were able to bring with them. They could bring so little. It is amazing these items made it out. I took a picture of a silver dreidel and a picture of the finials from a Torah scroll. I have a great deal of respect for the Torah. These are handwritten scrolls with no mistakes on them. They are precious to the Jewish people. These particular Rimmonnim (or Torah finials) are 300 years old. They belonged to the Levite family in Germany. They were confiscated from Ernest Levite on Kristallnacht. This is night Jewish shops had the glass display windows broken and items were looted. These finials were held by the Jewish community in Nuremberg until they were returned to the Ernest Levite family in 2015. 

This is a Torah scroll that was saved by the friend of a Jew on Kristallnacht. To him, it is a symbol that Hitler did not destroy the Jewish wisdom and culture.

Jews were forced to leave their homes and live in a ghetto. This wall represents the ghetto to which they were consigned. There are holes in the brick wall. You can look through the holes and see pictures of life in the ghetto with some quotes of those who experienced this horror. The second two pictures are of quotes looking through the brick ghetto wall. The second one is a young boy who had his Bar Mitzvah in these conditions. It tore at my heart strings. 

There was a section that focused on the concentration camps. These signs speak to that. There were many camps and some had different purposes. All were wretched. 

This listing of some of the more well-known camps has a container behind filled with shoes. Very moving. 

The final wall as we left has quotes from these survivors. I will share two of the quotes that touched me the most. 

Claude and I really appreciated this museum. It was a good experience. 

As we exited CMC, this is the view of the Cincinnati skyline. 

We found a Mexican restaurant in the Covington/Florence area we had eaten at before for a nice meal-O-the-day. 

When we got home, there was a package for me at the door. It was my new Clark's sandals. Love me some nice Clark sandals. Needed some tan colored sandals. They were on a great sale. Yeah me!

The new DVD was also in a package in the mail. We, alas, have never gotten into the streaming world. We have so many DVD's that we really love and so many things we DVR. We had trouble with the DVD's stopping on a scene and other things. We ordered a DVD cleaner that seemed to help but we still had the issues. We really felt it was the DVD player wearing out and we really didn't want to ruin any of the DVD's we enjoy. Claude found one and ordered it on line. Yeah Claude!

We watched more World War II with Tom Hanks in the evening. I got a nice call from Katelyn. Drews mother is not well. And I was able to text a lot with Laura, my BFF.

Thursday, July 9th, I posted a question on our family Facebook page with the answer of Exodus. This is a book I read when I was much younger. I decided I wanted to read it again. I purchased it for my Kindle. Then I read some more in Little Women. I am currently reading it and want to finish it before I start Exodus. 

Claude had an appointment with his audiologist. One of his hearing aids was not holding a charge. It had to be sent off to be fixed. Claude was wearing a loaner hearing aid till his came back. We went to pick his repaired hearing aid up. 

Then we drove to Dan Cummins, our local car dealership to check out Buick Envisions. We were trolling for information, not to purchase. We are thinking we will need to get me one more car before I get to old to drive. When we bought my current Buick Envision in February 2017, my goal was to drive it for 10 years at least before changing cars. We are close to that now. We may wait until the 2027's are on the market and think seriously about purchasing a 2026 that has never been owned. Maybe save some and still get another 10 years out of it. 

I read a survey that was supposedly made by four great chefs of fast food chicken and biscuits to see which they thought had the best chicken and biscuits. The first place hands down was Popeye's. We now have a Popeye's in Georgetown. We have been there once. We went back. The chicken strips were very good. A little dry but the breading was good and that makes or breaks a chicken strip for me. However, they are way down my list of good biscuits. Way down!! It was fun to eat and compare. Bojangles is hard to beat for a really good biscuit and you can get them anytime of the day. Actually, Bojangles came in second and KFC was third. There were some comments that the flavor if KFC seems to have changed over the years. It seems KFC had changed flour and also spice vendors. Hence, the flavor change. 

When we got home, Claude installed the new DVD player. I was very proud of him. He didn't even have to call Michael, our son-in-law, for any help! Yeah Claude!! I told him the Peace Lily in the middle of the living room was something I could get used to. 

We enjoyed an evening of Castle ono our new DVD player.

Friday, July 10th, was an at home kinda day. I read a bit more in Little Women. 

Then I settled in to work on my Relief Society lesson for July 26th. I made a PowerPoint whiIch I will tweek between now and then. It felt good to get that al down in the PowerPoint. 

We learned of a tribute band doing Carpenter music. I purchased us tickets to go to that in October. 

I kept getting eMails for Kentucky Surgeons. These are the nerve surgeons I saw about my feet. They wanted me to open a medical history account with them. I have put it off and not responded because I don't know that I will ever need to go back there. I decided to try it. In looking at their diagnosis, I came across this word 'claudication'. I told Claude about this word in my diagnosis and shared this explanation of the word.

Claude's response: "I apologize profusely...on the other hand I have a disease named after me. How cool is that!" 

I ordered two dresses from Amazon. One of them arrived. It is purple. Oh My!! I love it. 

Claude and I had one of those moments when we both laughed so hard we had tears rolling down our cheeks. Claude's face was beet red. I was trying to tell him something and couldn't think of the word. Claude thought of it and added it and then carried the thought a bit further and couldn't think of the word he wanted. I was able to get that word and then we realized how ridiculous all this sound and the laughter started. It was a really fun moment. Love those moments. 

Katelyn sent us this picture of our Joel. Poor kid. Claude has said his whole life that Joel was an accident waiting to happen. He has healed from his broken jaw. Now his eye is swollen. I am sure it is a bug bite but he looks miserable. It went down the second day. 

Saturday, July 11th, was the day after a bad night...again. I woke up at 5am and thought it was really 7am. 7am is an okay time to get up and get going for me. 5am in not. I went back to bed at 8am and slept till 11am. Not a great start to my Saturday. In addition, it felt like it was Friday and knowing it was Saturday made me feel like I lost a day somewhere. I was definitely out of kilter.

I read in Little Women. Then ordered tickets to the Mary Poppins play a friend is in. 

Then I simply decided I would give up, not have any guilty feelings about doing so, at not do anything of significance the remainder of the day. Claude took note of my out-of-sorts emotional state and decided the best way to help me was to take the same attitude. He also felt like it should have been a Friday. What a weird day for both of us.

Sunday, July 12th, was a good Sabbath Day. Claude and I were asked to give the opening (Claude) and closing (me) prayer in Sacrament Meeting. I was also asked to substitute as the chorister. My arm held out, thank heavens. It gets very sore and very tired by the end of a hymn, but I did it! I also had my ministering interview right after Relief Society.

Claude took us to Jimmy John's drive-thru for our lunch. This time I switched it up and got the tuna sub instead of the Italian. 

Claude took his Sunday nap while I cleared the DVR of some of my documentaries. While watching them I searched for shorts that would be long enough for Claude. I found three kinds that might work. When Claude woke up we looked at all three. He picked a color our of each type and then I placed the order. Hopefully they will work. 

In the evening, we watched movies and I crocheted some. We watched Out of Africa. This is such a good movie, the scenery and music are wonderful. Then we watch Moonstruck. 

We had a good Sabbath Day.

Very Hot & 4th of July Fun...

Monday, June 29th, we were about to begin the hottest week so far this summer. Highs in the 90+ range sometimes feeling like 100. Then, you add that southern humidity to it and it makes for a stay-inside-grateful-for-air-conditioning kinda week. 

I was up a couple of hours before Claude this day. I headed to Sandiland to see what I could crank out before he woke up. I printed and disbursed the July Relief Society newsletter. Then I sent an eMail to Jennifer Barber with the announcements and lessons for July. Jennifer creates the Sunday bulletin. I also corrected the date on the church calendar for the July Relief Society activity. 

Claude woke up and I tempted him with a biscuit run and the offer to sit in the Jeep and go over The Drive which is our big trip this fall. We are looking at a three week drive. Hence, The Drive with capital first letters. We waded thru my grid of 17 pages. No way we can do all of this in three weeks. We need to pare down and I wanted his input so it wasn't me making that kind of decision for both of us. Now I could rework the grid. 

When we got home I started the laundry. Then off to Sandiland to send out eMails to a lot of sisters in the ward to try and get information for future Spotlights in the Relief Society newsletter. My plan was to make a list of all the ladies that have not been a Spotlight in the newsletter with their eMail addresses and phone numbers. Then to create a generic letter to be sent. Then I sent individual eMails to 29 ladies. I would send a text to the one I did not have an eMail address for. I received two eMail responses that their eMail address did not work. I then sent these two ladies a text. I have received seven responses so far giving me Spotlights through February 2027. That feels so good to me. As their responses have come in, I have created a page with the answers to their questions and their pictures on it. Now I can simply copy and paste through February 2027. Whew!! Then, I took a break and cleared things off the DVR.

 

I did go to the mailbox and noted how happy our hostas were in the front flower bed. This is their second summer and they are thriving. This sent me on a quest to check on a few other flowers in our yard. 

First I looked at my Lucifer plant with lots of blossoms. I love this vivid red color. The flower is also very interesting. It on the side of our home so I have to be sure and go to look at it. 

This is our Columbine. It cracks me up when the blossoms fall off and you have this whatever it is left over. The sun hits it and it is a funny color of gold and orange. It reminds me of Donald Trump's hair! Yike!!

I mentioned to Claude I was thinking about Spam and remembering a stir-fry we used to make with diced Spam. He made that for our dinner. Yummy! Then I watched some Castle with Claude and did a little more crocheting. 

Tuesday, June 30th, was Drew's birthday. He is our grand son-in-law. I posted this on our family Facebook page: "Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear hockey-loving, family-loving, grand son-in-law of ours, Happy Birthday to you, Drew Roper!! Love Ya Bunches!! 

Katelyn sent us a copy of the talk Drew is going to give in Church. Very touched by his testimony. 

I spent my day working on The Drive grid. 

We went to Burger King for dinner. Then home to watch the next World War II documentary with Tom Hanks and some more Castle. I did a bit more crocheting. This picture is a same of the pattern and yard of Raelyn's Christmas present afghan I am crocheting. 

Wednesday, July 1st, Claude went grocery shopping. 

I had two main goals. Clean the other two bathrooms in our home and change the linens on the guest bedroom bed. Got both of those done. Yeah me!! I also got the living and dining room vacuumed. And, after I showered, I clipped my toenails. This gets harder to do the older I get. 

I posted this on the Ward Facebook Page. A church-wide fast was suggested for everyone on this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This would be done on Sunday, July 5th, our regular Fast Sunday. I read a very disturbing bit on Facebook. A man said it was okay for now to let LDS people vote but since by-and-large they are very conservative it should be considered in the future to not allow them to vote. Really! 

I talked Claude into Dairy Queen for dinner. They have chicken tenders and gravy to dip them in. I have not had that in forever. We went and had a tiny ice cream after. 

In the evening we watched Castle and I did a bit more crocheting. 

I also did some texting with my BFF Laura Carter. Her oldest grandson would be getting married over the weekend. She was headed to that wedding. That is a big moment. Laura had fought cancer and beat it and completed her PT to be able to use her arm again and gain strength. She has worked very hard and this is a great reward to be able to go and see this loved grandson get married. 

Thursday, July 2nd, we both woke up feeling like the holiday weekend should start on Thursday. 

I ordered me a pair of Clark sandals. They were have a really good sail. I have never gone wrong with Clark sandals. 

I also received my American the Beautiful Senior Lifetime Pass to the national parks. I came in a plastic holder you can hang on your rearview mirror. Way cool. I have printed copies that came as soon as I signed up for and paid the fee for the pass. I have that digital version on my cellphone. I also ordered a credit card sized version and that is what came in the mail. Very happy to have these. $80 will cover national park and other park entries for the remainder of my life versus $30 per visit for a day pass. 

In the evening, the missionaries came for dinner. Claude cooked up pot roast, mashed potatoes and grave, candied shredded carrots, rolls and tossed salad. He prepared strawberry shortcakes for dessert. There were three missionaries this time. They gave us a spiritual thought about finding joy. Good to have them in our home. 

Katelyn posted this cute picture of our Kennedi. Oh My Goodness. She is really stylin' and had chosen food to eat from the major junk food groups!!

Scott Meadows was the pastor of the Sadieville Christian Church. We interacted with him a lot when we lived in Sadieville. He left a little before we did and took a position with another church in North Carolina. He posted a question on Facebook about one of the most dangerous toys we played on during our childhood. I found this picture on the Internet and shared it. I don't these are even allowed on playgrounds anymore. We would load them with as many kids as we could get and then an adult would run and spin it as fast as they could possible get it going. It was great fun. It was fun to see others comment that they also remembered this fun piece of playground equipment and love it as well. 

Friday, July 3rd, we would begin our 4th of July weekend by doing yardwork all morning. In that 90+ degree humid heat. Oh my goodness. We took breaks and consumed lots of liquid during those breaks. Then we stayed inside and rested all afternoon. 

We left our home before 5pm and headed toward Renfro Valley, Kentucky with a stop at Burger King in Georgetown to get burgers for dinner to eat on the way down I-75. We were headed to see the Oak Ridge Boys. I received an eMail that tickets were available. They were having lots of festivities in Refro Valley that day culminated in an 8:30pm concert in the New Barn Theater by the Oak Ridge Boys. We have been there to see them before and they are getting older but still but on a great show. 

They sang "Gonna Take a Lot of River" (to wash these blues away). I always get a kick out of this song. The chorus has one line that says "Gonna take the Mississippi, the Monongahela and the Ohio". I believe it take a great deal of talent to get the word Monongahela into the lyrics of a song. Add to that Mississippi and Ohio and who have a master of writing lyrics!

Their base singer has such a fun voice and it sounds so very deep. I love to hear a male chorus sing much more than a female chorus. I told Claude as we left, "I would pay for this concert just to listen to him sing those low notes." Claude knows I really love the low notes. When we sing hymns in church, he makes sure to his the really low notes in the bass so I can hear him. We always look at each other and grin. Claude turned to me after my comment and said, "If I had a voice like that we would probably have 12 kids instead of three!" We both laughed really hard at that comment. I assured him if his beard were scruffy and he was wearing a plaid flannel shirt and smelled like a campfire and sang to me with that base voice, we probably would have 12 kids. Such silliness in old people who have enjoyed a lot of years together.

We totally enjoyed ourselves at this concert. At one point, they asked the audience to stand and we all sang the National Anthem. It was so moving. Grateful to live in the United States of America.

Saturday, July 4th, I slept in because of a very poor night's sleep. Grateful I can sleep in when that happens. ABC and The Disney Channel partnered to do 24-hours of television about America. They were all over the United States with stories. The segment I totally enjoyed had to do with the 7 Wonders of America. In case your were wondering, they are: The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Sequoia National Forest, the Appalachian Mountain (Blue Ridge Parkway), the Everglades, Hawaii Volcanos, and Niagara Falls. We have been to all of these places with the exception of Sequoia. I went there as a child but Claude and I have not been there together. This was a wonderful documentary. Totally enjoyed it. Saved it to watch again. 

I took these pictures to share on Facebook of our home on the 4th of July. Our neighborhood places flags by everyone's mailbox. They simply stick them in the ground. Claude likes them placing flags but he doesn't like the flag touching the ground. He moved ours to the top of our mailbox. 

I purchased tickets for us to go to the Georgetown Theater to see Young Washington. This is another Angel Films project. It was very well done. It covers Washington's life as a little boy to a young man. His defeat fighting the French. And his eventual determination to stand up for America, not the British. The actor that played Washington is a young model that is 6' 4" tall. He did a really good job. I noticed Andy Serkis was acting. He played Gollum in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings movies. It was good for me to see him in another role. I have really pigeonholed him as Gollum. He has a much greater range as and actor. I would highly recommend this movie to others. It was graphically gory in the fighting scenes. That gave me a feel for what war was like. 

After the movie, we had dinner at Fazoli's. Then went home to enjoy an Eagles concert on our television. 

When it got dark enough, we went out to see what we could see from our yard for fireworks. Two doors down they were setting off some for the children that live there. 

Claude watched between the neighbors houses across the street from us. The view is of the fireworks at the fairgrounds in Georgetown. I call the first picture "Anticipation" and the next two are "The Reward".

Over our neighbors tree the entire time we were outside was this white light. It stayed in the same place. I am pretty sure it was a drone taking pictures of the fireworks in Georgetown. I assured Claude it was an alien!

Then I went to our back yard. The people behind us were getting off great fireworks. 

We enjoyed the fireworks which we didn't have to purchase. Then we went back inside to watch more Eagles concert. Not a bad evening at all. 

Sunday, July 5th, the cutest thing happened during sacrament meeting. The Georgetown Ward meets before us. There was a baby blessing during their sacrament meeting. They forgot to put the microphone on the cord away after the meeting. It was laying on the floor in front of the stand. Cassie Zitter came in with her two little kids. At one point, Lincoln (he may be two years old) must have noticed it. He managed to escape the bench and get to the microphone. Fortunately it was not on. That was not a problem for Lincoln. He wanted to hold it and pretend. The Dymocks were sitting in the row in front of us. Zak got up and retrieved Lincoln and sat him on his knee on their bench while Cassie found something to distract Lincoln. All went well until time for the closing prayer. Lincoln escaped again and got that microphone and held it like he was talking or singing or something all through the prayer. Claude was in stitches. Cute moment in time.

We had Jimmy John's for lunch. Then nap for Claude and Blog and pictures for me. 

Our evening may hold a Dairy Queen run for ice cream. Then television and crocheting. A good Sabbath Day.